Bligh wants more detail on cancer vaccine plans

Queensland's Acting Premier Anna Bligh is appealing to the Prime Minister to clarify how his government will fund and deliver the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil.

John Howard has committed to an immunisation program after Health Minister Tony Abbott earlier accepted a committee recommendation that the drug not be funded through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Mr Howard now says immunisations could happen in schools across the country next year.

Ms Bligh says her Government is publishing an open letter to the Prime Minister tomorrow, urging him to release details.

"In the light of the fact that the Prime Minister has now said two things in the last two days about the future of this vaccine and its availability, it is important for the Prime Minister and the Federal Government to now move and give some certainty about what is and will be happening with this drug," she said.

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